Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honesty. Little of this American-made film is in English; the cast is largely composed of true Indians who look as authentic as their names: Richard Fools Bull, Ben Eagleman, Edward Little Sky. The movie portrays the Sioux as a repressive, formally violent people who master their mutual hysteria by refracting it into a hundred narrow superstitions. But their cruelty is no more harsh or capricious than the weather. And their obsessive chants and dances are produced by men to whom the earth is not a temporary riddle but a final answer...
...done by Wadleigh himself) and the editing by T. Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese-a masterly combination of taste, timing and theatrics. There are sequences -such as one in which John Sebastian dedicates a song to a girl who has just given birth-of lilting simplicity. There is the hysteria of The Who and the pure rhythmic orgasm of Ten Years After. They all help to make Woodstock as unique on film as it was in fact, "the mind blower," as John Sebastian puts it, "of all time...
...flesh, as being wiser than the intellect." But his books are models of calculation, the grown-up products of the scholarship boy who was a great exam taker. Although Lawrence celebrated the phallus and sang of the masculine principle, his every work is marked by an almost feminine hysteria that nags as it argues...
America imposes the model of a life in which you are supposed to struggle to the top. Society then imposes collective moral sanctions against anyone who does not accept the hysteria. But if you don't accept the model, you are lost as well as hated. You are not so much ostracized as left to find your own way. There's nowhere left to walk if you refuse to climb their ladder...
...dilute the Voting Rights Act, the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations, the general lack of warmth, concern and responsibility for blacks on the part of the White House. When Presidential Adviser Daniel P. Moynihan counseled "benign neglect" in his now famous memo, his stated intention was only to remove hysteria from both sides of the racial struggle. But the phrase seems to describe the Administration's attitude on race in general- and most blacks even question the accuracy of the word benign...